Vampire Weekend

I can not stop listening to the Vampire Weekend self-titled album. The only time I'm not listening to it is when I'm in meetings and during those times I'm singing the songs in my head anyway.

So Vampire Weekend is a big ol' mosh-up of all sorts of sounds. It's definitely pop, with a British feel (some songs kinda have a Beatles vibe, I think), there is African drumming undertones (which reminds me of Paul Simon, post Simon and Garfunkel) and one song's chorus reminds me of the Ramones.

Now I'm probably getting all of those references wrong and some know-it-all is going to come at me saying it's nothing like that at all; all of their influence obviously comes from neo-underground-post-london-punk-via-brooklyn, or something random like that. But that's the stuff that I hear and that's the stuff that makes me listen to the entire album from start to finish and then hit the back button on my Ipod and start the whole thing all over again.

You can see one video here

You can hear one song here